FLOREFFE : BELGIUM

*Location:

   Klein Seminary
   (Toren Oude Praemonstr. Abdij)
   Rue Camille Geroul
   Floreffe, Namur, Belgium
   LL: N 50.43355, E 4.75792
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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Eerw. Heer Neyt

*Schedule:

   (unknown)

*Technical data:

   Traditional chime (baton keyboard) of 20 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is A  in the treble octave
   Transposition is up 21 semitone(s)
   Keyboard range:     C G   /    NONE  
   There are no missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1941
     with bells made by Michiels    
   No auxiliary mechanisms known
   Tower details not available
   Year of latest technical information source is 1972
*Links:

The Dutch Wikipedia page about the Abbey has a distant photo.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Michiels bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all Belgian chimes by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by pitch of largest bell.
Ranking among all Belgian chimes by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in BE/Namur.

*Status:
   This page was built from the database on 20-Dec-12
   based on textual data last updated on 2012/12/03
   and on technical data last updated on 1979/03/28
*Photos:

(none available)


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